About Rho Sandberg

Rho has drawn on her experience as an executive coach, her early career in neurological rehabilitation and cognitive science and her studies of depth psychology, to train over 1600 individuals in organisational and consulting contexts to become coaches.

She takes great pleasure in sharing with coaching students, frameworks and micro-skills that support leaders, managers and employees develop the insight, agility and courage essential to harnessing opportunities and tackling the perennial problems that many avoid.

Entries by Rho Sandberg

As coaches we are consistently called to debunk the trap of being an expert. Of course being an expert is seductive; it strokes our egos. But we are called to put our egos and expertise aside. We are here to honor our clients’ inherent wisdom, as it’s revealed through their emerging process; a dynamic, changing and shifting event. […]

Since the Women’s Marches in cities across the USA and around the world I have been heartened and inspired by all the women and men taking to the streets to advocate for their vision of a just and inclusive world. The images on social media brought me to tears. The spirit and resilience of those […]

Who are your role models? What do you love most about them? How have they inspired you? One of my role models is my former high school principal, John Tindley, an approachable and progressive leader who was out and about in the school yard chatting with us on a regular basis. However, what comes to […]

Have you ever considered your origins and the way they’ve influenced your approach to life and your work? I began my professional life as an Occupational Therapist, so when I connected this morning with a group of OTs who have all become coaches it was like coming home. We spoke a language we all immediately […]

Coaches are miners who go to work each day armed with acute observation skills and powerful questions. We are privy to our clients’ aspirations. Coaches work with respect with their clients to reveal their interior worlds; the thoughts, feelings, mindsets and motivations that underpin their decisions and inspire their capabilities. We learn about the worlds […]

When Vicki and I first launched the Global Coaching Institute we debated for quite a time about whether we should offer advanced or foundational coach training programs. We went back and forward but no solution really satisfied us. And so the conversations went round and round. You know the feeling! We were caught in a false polarity. False polarities […]

During my early career as a therapist rehabilitating people after brain injuries and stroke, I became fascinated by the workings of the brain. These years taught me a lot about what happens when things start going haywire. It’s an understanding I still value as a coach… Leaders need to be able to think clearly. We expect them to […]

Recently I went to the Camberwell market in Melbourne. It’s a fabulous place, full of old discarded bric-a-brac, furniture, records and clothing deemed to be of little value to the original owner. The same items can prove to be treasure for those who discover them. All it takes is a little imagination and know-how to […]

Building coaching cultures in organisations is increasingly being recognised as a way to optimise staff engagement and buy-in. Over the past few years we’ve been training leaders and managers to use a coaching approach to help their staff adjust and navigate rapidly changing environments. Rather than endlessly explaining organisational change or blindly reassuring staff, program […]

We are living in an era of disruption, in which rapid technological change demands a radical rethink of the ways we do business and how we live our lives. Most leaders know that even their best-made plans are good for only as long as it takes the ink on these documents to dry. A key […]